Maven additionalArguments not set in <branding-name>.conf / Persist desired commandline-arguments with maven

[kraeusen@gmx.de]

Dear List,

I'd like to distribute my netbeans rcp application in a way that allows
several jvm arguments to be passed when starting.
Something similar to -J-Xmx2048m, but actually it's a javaagent.
I don't want to create a custom launcher, but use the standard generated
netbeans-launcher.

Usually, you'd put these arguments into nbproject/project.properties (or
platform.properties?).
From my understanding, the properties are then expected to be written to
the etc/<branding-name>.conf file, and when you distribute the
application, this config-file will be used by the launcher.

Now, I'm using maven (there's no nbproject-folder) and researched that
issue for a while, but I can't get it working.

In my parent pom.xml I defined under pluginManagement plugin:
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>nbm-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.5</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<brandingToken>${brandingToken}</brandingToken>
<cluster>${brandingToken}</cluster>
<additionalArguments>-J-noverify
-J-javaagent:"myproject\modules\ext\my.package\agent-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"</additionalArguments>

</configuration>

When I run the application from the ide, everything is working just as
expected. Duh, the ide actually adds these parameters as
commandline-arguments as I can see in the output:

Executing: cmd.exe /X /C
"{path-to-my-project}\application\target\{project-name}\bin\{project-name}.exe
--console suppress --userdir
{path-to-my-project}\application\target\userdir
-J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true -J-ea --branding {project-name}
--jdkhome "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0" -J-noverify
-J-javaagent:myproject\modules\ext\my.package\agent-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"

However, these arguments are not written to <branding-name>.conf and
when I run the application standalone, they will not be passed.

Does anyone know how to get this working with maven (netbeans 7.x, maven2)?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas